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No. 323,323. Patented July 28, 1885.

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APPARATUS EUR RECEIVING AND CONVEYING AWAY GKE DRAWN PROM GAS RETURTS.

No. 323,323. Patented July 28, 1885.

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APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING AND CONVEYING AWAY COKE DRAWN FROM GAS RETORTS.

No. 323,323. Patented July 28, 1885.

linnen @rares Partnr Orrrcno HENRY HACK, OF SALTLEY, BIRMINGHAM, ACOUNTY OF VARVIOK, AND FRANCIS LEY, OF BARROlV-ON-TRENT, COUNTY OF DERBY, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FORRECEIVING AND CONVEYING AWAY COKE DRAWN FROM GAS-RETORTS.

SFECFICAIION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 323,323, dated July 28y 1885.

Application filed March 3, 1885. (No model.) Patented in England February 13,-1834, No. 3.5236

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Be it known that we, HENRY HACK, of Saltley, Birmingham, in the county of Varwick, England, gas-engineer, and FRANCIS LEY, of. Barrow-on-Trent, in the county of Derby, England, mechanical engineer, subjects oit' the Queen of Great Britain, have invented certain new and useful apparatus for receiving and conveying away coke drawn from gas-retorts or cokeovens and for delivering the saine ir to wagons, barges, or elsewhere, (for which we have obtained Letters Patent in Great Britain No. 3,236, dated February 13, 1884,) ot' which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object apparatus for receiving and conveying away coke drawn from gasrctorts or coke-ovens, and for delivering` the same into wagons, barges, or elsewhere. For these purposes immediately in front of each bench ofretorts, and running from end to end of the retort-house, we provide an opening in the floor or working-platform of the house. Beneath these openings we tix guide-plates, forming thereby long hoppcrs to receive the coke, and into these hoppers the coke falls as it is drawn from the retorts by the gas-stekels. A perforated pipe passes from end to end of each hopper in the upper part thereof', and water issues from this pipe, and, sprinkling the hot coke, rapidly cools it. The coke is conducted by the hopper onto the sur face of a conveyor, consisting of an endless chain supported upon rollers and made up of links, which have trough-like receptacles afixed upon their upper surfaces, and these receptacles, locking together, forni acontinuous traveling trough. The endless conveyer passes around drums at the ends of the retort-house, and these drums being driven the conveyor is kept in continuous motion. This conveyer, which to distinguish it from others may be culled the rccciverf carries away the coke delivered upou its surface and discharges it at the end of its course into a hopper, by which it is passed onto the surface of another conveyer ruiming at right angles to the receiver. This latter, which we will call the main conveyer, may be fed by several receivers passing along in front ofV as many retortbenches. The course of the main conveyor is not everywherehorizontal Where it receives the eche it is at some distance beneath the floor of the retort-house; but at its farther end, where the delivery takes place, it is desirable that it should be raised above the surface, and for this purpose it is carried up an incline. The incline will usually commence as soon as the conveyer emerges from the retort-house and will continue until the yard where the coke is delivered is reached. lThe delivery of the coke, however, docs not take place into the trucks or barges directly from the main conveyer, but usually it is first transferred to other conveyers at right angles, which are provided in the delivery-yard-.- From these latter it can be taken off in any convenient position, and this is effected by means of an apparatus which we term a plow7 and which consists of a double incline. This plow can be lowered into the trough of the conveyer at the point where the delivery is required to take place.

The plow is by preference movable along overhead rails, but it is stationary while in operation; and as the conveyer moves with the coke toward it the plow directs the eolie upward and off the surface ofthe conveyer on either side. The coke then falls intoahopper beneath, which in some cases will deliver it into the wagon or receptacle or onto the ground, and in other cases onto the surface of another conveyor. Y

The motive power for working the whole ar rangement is by preference applied to the ele vated end of the main conveyer,the terminal drum of which is driven by means of asteainengine. The main conveyer transmits the power to other drums over which it passes, and these in turn are geared with the drums over which the receiving and delivering cou veyers pass.

In order that our said invention may be most fully understood and readily carried into eifect, we will proceed to describe the drawings hereunto annexed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a sectional elevation, and Fig. 2 is a plan showing the gcneral arrangement according to our invention of apparatus for receiving and conveying coke.

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Fig. 8 shows to a larger scale a transverse vertical section of the receiving arrangements and of the conveyer onto which the coke first falls and which we call the receiver.7 The driving-gear by which the receiver obtains movement from the main conveyer is also indicated. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of part of the receiver,and the main conveyer also is here seen in transverse section. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the plow-like delivering implement and parts connected therewith, and a part of one of the conveyers is seen in section. Fig. 6 is afront elevation of the plow and parts in connection therewith. Fig. 7 is a plan of the overhead rail and parts ruiming thereon.

A A represent benches of gas-retorts from which the coke is being drawn.

B is the delivery-door. G C are the long trough-like hopper-s below the level of the i'loor which receive the coke as it falls from the retorts.

D D are perforated water-pipes within the hoppers, which by throwing a spray onto the glowing coke rapidly quench it.

E E are the conveyers (called the receivers7) immediately beneath the hoppers C C.

F F are the terminal hoppers, into which the receivers deliver the coke.

G Gr are the main conveyers,onto which the coke descends from the hoppers F F.

H H are terminal rollers, around which the conveyers are passed.

K is the engine by which the main conveyers are kept in movement. They are driven by gear,represented clearly in the drawings.

L L are the hoppers which receive the coke from the main conveyers and deliver to others as may be required.

These parts are all represented in the general views, Figs. l and 2.

In Fig. 8 the receiving-hopper C and receiver E are more fully shown. The receiving-hopper, it will be seen, is a continuous trough, consisting of iron plates fixed below the level ofthe delivery-floor. Itis open at the bottom from end to end, and the coke is prevented from falling through by the trav clingreceiver,which is immediately beneath.

The perforated water-pipe D is in connection with a main or elevated cistern, and is provided with a cock by which the amount of water applied to the coke may be regulated, as found necessary.

The receiver consists of an endless chain with interlocking trough-like sections of sheetiron, one fixed to every link. The conveyer passes around chain-rollers H at its ends.

In Fig. 3 the main conveyer M is indicated by dotted lines. It conveys power from the engine to drive the receiver E, to which motion is imparted by the shaft N. This shaft is driven by miter-wheels, as is clearly seen in Fig. l, one of the wheels being upon the shaft N and the other upon the chain-roller H,which the main conveyer surrounds. A pitclrchain and chain-wheels connect the shaft N with theA axis of the chain'roller H of the receiver E.

On the same axis there is another ehain-wheel, and this, by a pitch-chain, drives a corresponding wheel on an axis, O, which passes across the retort-house beneath the deliveryiioor and aetnates the receiver on the other side of the house. Y

The receivers and the main conveyer are similar .in construction, and in each case the endless chain is supported upon rollers arranged a short distance apart. which the chain passes over these rollers is clearly represented in Fig. i. The main conveyer may be guided up a rising incline, as is represented in Fig. l. The main conveyer delivers the coke to other conveyers in the same way as it receives it from the receiver, and these other conveyers are arranged according to the circumstances of the case to take the coke to the places where it is required. At these places the coke is removed from the conveyer by the delivery apparatns,which we will proceed to describe.

Pis a plow-like instrument of iron, covered at its lower part with leather. It can be lowered down into the trough conveyer. The leather covering serves to prevent contact of metal with metal, thereby avoiding risk of damage. The implement Pis suspended from a carriage,which runs along an overhead rail, Q. R is the frame of this carriage, and R R are its wheels.

S is a pawl, which is caused to drop in a notch in the under side of the rail Q when it is desired to iix the implement l? in position to cause the delivery of the coke from the conveyer. On the axis of the pawl is a weighted lever, S', which tends to raise the pawl and make it engage with the notch in the under side of the rail. The pawl, however, can be drawn out of the notch by means of a handchain S2.

B is a stop upon the carriage, serving to limit the movement of the lever S.

The implement P is fixed to a frame, T, which is jointed to the carriage at R2. The fore part of the implement l? is also connected to the carriage R by an arrangement of links U with an intermediate joint at U. The pin of this joint passes through a slot in the end of the lever V,which has its fulcrum at V upon the carriage.

\Vhen the parts are in the position in which they are represented in Fig. 5, the implement l? is kkin its lowest position, resting within the conveyer. Itis raised from this position to put it out of use by means of a hand-chain, V2, attached to the lever V, which being pulled downward raises the slotted end of the lever and with it the joint U. The frame T then turns about its fulcrum upon the carriage. The' implement P is lifted out of the conveyer and is held suspended above it. A pawl, W, engages with the lever V to retain the plow in its elevated positions. The pawl is released when required by lifting it by means of a hand-chain, W', attached to it. It will thus be seen that the implement P may be brought The way in IOO IZO

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to any position along the line of the eonveyer, being carried into position by the carriage R, ruiming along the rail Q, and When in place the carriage can be there locked. This having been done, the implement is ready to be lowered into the conveyer, and then the coke with which the conveyer is loaded, coming in Contact with the implement P, rises up its double incline and is delivered out ofthe conveyer on the two sides. It falls to the ground or into areceptaele-it may be a railway-truck or barge-for taking it away.

We would remark that we do not claim generally the conveyance of coke by endless conveyers; but

XVe claiml. The arrangements for receiving the coke, consisting of guide-plates forming long hoppers into which the coke falls as it is drawn from the retorts or ovens and which deliver it onto the conveyer, such long hopper being provided with sprinkling apparatus for quenching the coke, substantially as described.

2. The system of conveyers, consisting of endless chains supported on rollers and made np of links carrying receptacles locking together to forni a continuous traveling trough,

such conveyers being arranged at right angles the one to the other and being all driven through one main conveyer, substantially as described.

3. rEhe means for the delivering of the coke from the conveyer, consisting in placing Withi n the trough of the conveyer a plow-like implement, which, being held stationary While the eonveyer continues in movement, directs its contents over the sides of and out ofthe conveyer, substantially as described.

4. The combination of the endless troughlike conveyers, the overhead rails, and the plow-like delivering instrument, substantially as described.

HENRY HACK. FRANCES LEY. Vitnesses to the signature of Henry Hack:

H. E. HERB, F. BAXTER, Clerks to Reese, Harris fHa-rfrls, Solicitors, Birmiughmn, England. "Witnesses to the signature of Francis Ley:

Gno. W. REYNOLDS, J. W. ROWBOTHAM. Clerks to rlfessrs. Moody s Woolley, Solicitors and Notaries Public, Derby, England. 

